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What if you could vastly increase the size of your student body, slash costs, and increase student success rates all at the same time? Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Well, according to a recent article from Bill Gates, that's exactly what the University of Central Florida has just done. University of Central Florida has managed to triple...

If you haven’t listened to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, Revisionist History, I highly recommend it. In each episode, Gladwell explores an event or idea that historians have misunderstood. Through interviews, data, and uncovered information, he retells a historical story that popular history got wrong. In a recent episode, Gladwell explored an overlooked feature of school desegregation through the court case Brown...

Anyone who has ever worked in education for a span of several years knows that trends come and go faster than a teacher’s lunch break. Whether it’s a new science curriculum or a new approach to teaching phonics, educational curricula and techniques are constantly being reinvented. One trend, though, that isn’t going anywhere is the use of technology in the...